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Datacenter Renewable Power Done Right: All the article is interesting, but I think this gives something away about how Amazon prices AWS: “Amazon Web Services added an interesting innovation where they sell the remaining capacity not fully consumed by this natural flattening of the peak to average. These troughs are sold on a spot market and customers are often able to buy computing at less the amortized cost of the equipment they are using”. I wonder if that means that the normal pricing strategy for AWS is simply to amortize the cost (presumably taking projected usage into account)?